Oliver turned 6 months old two days ago and today I turned 32.
Maniacal Rage
Garrett Murray is the Creative Director of Karbon and an award-winning filmmaker
But really, of course, Happy Mother’s Day to my wife Stacey. She’s a much better mother than I am.
Happy Mother’s Day to… ME!
marktegethoff asked:
You mentioned in a recent post that you spend a lot of time focusing and taking multiple photos to get the ideal result. Are you a manual focus guy or auto-focus guy? Or a little of both?
Depends a bit on the camera. On my 5D Mark II it’s about 50/50 autofocus to manual because the autofocus is trustworthy. I tend to autofocus and then tweak manually before shooting. But on my NEX-7 I’ve found the autofocus to be lacking so when I shoot with that camera it’s about 90% manual focus, 10%.
In general I have a constant fear of autofocus because I hate the idea of snapping 30 photos while I’m out only to find out they’re all garbage. Granted, the same thing can happen with manual focus, but it’s a lot less common and it’s my own fault in those cases.
Anonymous asked:
Your photos always look so good. Do you do any post processing on them, or are they usually straight out of the camera?
I do quite a bit of post-processing. I have a few presets I’ve created over the years that I tend to set as a default on each photo, and then I spent time tweaking lighting, colors, shadows and highlights, etc. I also usually spend time spot removing distracting elements (like a hair running across someone’s face or specs on their face or clothing) and do some work to bring out focal points like faces and such.
I spend about 10-30 minutes per photo in Lightroom. Sometimes less (for simpler photos that came out of the camera pretty well), sometimes much more (in cases with a lot of differences in light and such).
